Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-13

| cared for by loving hands. The |
floor Of the hall greatly resembled
that of the drill-room Of Desplaines- |
Street police station in Chicago the |
NIGHT OF the Haymarket riot. Torn
and bleeding human beings IN all the |
| different stages Of suffering lay around |
the rooms moaning and crying with |
agony while the doctors and nurses
were binding up their wounds. Bloody
clothing, torn and covered with mud,
lay around the floors in heaps together
with car.cushions, mattresses, and
blankets, on which they had been
brought from the scene OF the
wreck. Many patients were under
the influence OF ether or chloroform,
while their faces, CHASTITY white, and
teeth tightly clcnchcd, showed the suf-
forings which they were undergoing
willie partially oblivious to the fact.
| Blood was cverywherc-on the floors.
walls, clothing, and hands OF the
wounded, as we'll as on those who were
caring for them. As the day wore
away md the afternoon shadows
heightened into evening tho scene
changed somewhat. The wounded had
been dressed and bandaged and most |
Of them rested quietly, overcome by |
mental and physical suffering, resting |
on comfortable beds, watched by tender
hearted men and women, majority |
of whom had never seen the patients |
until yesterday. They slept obliyious |
| to tie slaughter which had taken place. |
| Co.l.oil lamps were placed around the |
balls, their light carefully shaded, and
the scene was strongly suggestive of |
| the interior Of hospital on the field of |
| battle. In one corner of the lower |
hall 10y John G. Stecn, resident of |
jersey City, "A large and powerful man.
| Beth of his legs were broken, and he |
had received such internal injuries |
SIS rendered his recovery doubtful. |
Adam Shalberger, OF Peoria, lay near |
| him pcmi-consciOus and slowly breath |
| ing his life away. One of his legs was |
broken, and he was injured internally. |
On the upper floor d handsome woman. |
about twenty years of age, stylishly |
dressed, lay extended on couch. She |
was Miss Hittie Bremen, OF Farming |
ton, ILL.,, and was on her way to Niagara
Falls with several relatives. In the
party was a young man named Walters,
slso of Pennington, to whom she was
engaged to be married. He had been
badly injured, and lay near her on a
bed attended by couple of surgeons.
While Miss Brenncr was physically I'M
hurt, yet fright and knowledge of her
lovers injuries has rendered her insane.
c,,rer. ~ nm,
In the depot at Chatsworth and in
an unoccupied store used as = mOrgue
tho scene WIS suggestive OF a slaughter
house. Stretched out on the floors in
different directions were cOrpses of |
men, women, and children, dressed in
the clothing in which they had met
their death. In the empty store-room, |
twenty feet wide and forty feet long,
were counted twenty seven cOrpses.
At one time their clothing was
torn end dlshevellcd, and their stiff
fened hands and arms in a majority |
of cases were crossed over their breasts.
The heads of the dead were generally |
mangled in most friehtful manner
snd were always covered by some artl-
Gle OF clothing. The face of young
woman who was lying on the floor of
the depot had been so beaten in that
recognition was entirely ont OF the
question, and her brains and the lesh
of her face were pulpy mass. in which
dabbled her long, red hair. She was not
identified. A man with heavy, dark
moustache, and who was apparently
about thirty-fve years Of age, had been
struck in the face by some substance
winch had torn away his jaw aad the
side of his face, leaving the throat and
the lower part of his face exposed. A
five-ycar-old boy, with chubby face
and curly hair, looked contented and
smiling. His legs were not broken,
but the flesh was so mangled that 1t
bore the appearance of raw beef; his
chest was crushed in and his little body
was covered with bruises. Nearly every
corpse was mangled or disfigured. The
faces of some of the dead were as black
ss though they had died from suiioca-
ton, while others were deadly white.
CHICAGO. August IA dispatch
from Springfield, ILL.,, says: The board
Of railroad and warehouse commission
ers will go to ChatswoTth to-day and
conduct an investigation of the wreck
O. yesterday morning.
REMOVING THE WRECK.
CHATswORGR, ILL.,, August 12.-At
= o'clock this morniug Master Mechanic
Warren with wrecking train and
large force OF men Were OF work.
Warren was confident the track would
be cleared for trains by noon. They |
were certain all the dead bodies had
been removed from the wreck.
4 SPECIAL ear with the officials of the
Wabash road reached the wreck early
this morning, and rendered the use OF
their wrecking outfit and offered to be
of any service possible. The Illinois
Central also offered any required
assistance, but Warren said he thought
his present equipment would enable
him to clear the track. President
Leonard, Superintendent Armstrong,
and other Toledo, Peoria and Western
officials were seen this morning. They
have given devoted attention to rellet
Of the injured and care of the dead.
Both shov signs of the terrible shock
WHICH VIC i4tso CNNh W
THE PRESIDENTS STATEMENT.
President Leonard said that so far as
railroad officials could estimate there
were about eighty killed and one hun
dred seriously wounded There are
mary vino were slightly injured of
whom no record has yet been obtained.
4 list is being compiled in Peoria by
officers Of the company. Mr.. Leonard
aid that as near as he could ascertain |
the train was making about thirty
miles an hour at the time OF the acct
d.nt-not an excessive rate of speed,
as the track Was in good condition. The
bridge, an ordinary fifteenfoot wooden
structure. vas all rightat 3 o'clockin the
afternoon, when train passed over
IL. and 3 half hour later the section
men inspected it, undor orders, IN ad-
vance of the excursion train. 1t was
all right then. OF the liability OF the
company in future of the road the
president could not say. The hrst
thing officials will do will be to devote
their attention to the care of the unior-
tunate victims. 1t was o blow winch
would. of course, be most serious 10